Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

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Type	Subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America
Industry	Music & entertainment
Genre	Various
Founded	1929 (as American Record Corporation (ARC)) 1938 (as Columbia/CBS Records) 1991 (as SME) 2004 (as Sony BMG) 2008 (as SME)
Headquarters	550 Madison Avenue New York, New York, United States
Key people	Doug Morris: Chairman & CEO Kevin Kelleher: CFO Clive Davis: Chief Creative Officer
Products	Music & entertainment
Revenue	US$ 5,672 million (FY 2010)[1][2]
Operating income	US$ 469 million (2010)[2][1]
Owner(s)	Sony
Parent	Sony Corporation of America
Website	sonymusic.com

Sony Music Entertainment (SME or Sony Music) is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation.

History[link]

Pre-history[link]

1929-1938: American Record Corporation[link]

The company, which evolved into Sony Music, was founded in 1929 as the American Record Corporation (ARC) through the merger of several smaller record companies.^[3] In the depths of the Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company (founded in 1888) in the U.S. (including its Okeh Records subsidiary) was acquired by ARC in 1934.

1938-1991: Columbia/CBS Records[link]

ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (which itself had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off). The Columbia Phonograph Company had international subsidiaries and affiliates such as the Columbia Graphophone Company in the United Kingdom, but they were sold off prior to CBS acquiring American Columbia. RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company.^[4][5] CBS made Columbia its flagship label with Okeh its subsidiary label while deemphasizing ARC's other labels. This allowed ARC's leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to former owner Warner Bros. which sold the labels to Decca Records. Wallerstein restored Columbia's status as a leading record company and spearheaded the successful introduction of the long playing (LP) record before he retired as Columbia's chairman in 1951. James Conkling then became head of Columbia Records.^[6] Also in 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name and began a distribution deal with Philips Records. Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label.

CBS founded Epic Records in 1953. In 1956, Conkling left Columbia and Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company.^[6] In 1958, CBS founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music.^[7]

In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its main international distributor Philips Records with the goal of CBS starting its own international record company.^[8] Philips' acquisition of Mercury Records in the US in 1961 paved the way for CBS to start its own global record company.^[9] CBS only had the rights to the Columbia name in North America. Therefore the international arm founded in 1961 and launched in 1962 utilized the "CBS Records" name only with Philips Records distributing the label in Europe.^[10] CBS' Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963.^[11]

In 1964, CBS established its own UK distribution with the acquisition of Oriole Records.^[12] EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the distribution deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution directly.^[13]

In 1966, CBS reorganized its corporate structure which made CBS Records a separate unit of CBS run by Clive Davis.^[14]

Also in 1966, the Date subsidiary label was repurposed mainly for the soul music outlet. This label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb. Date's biggest success was Time Of The Season by The Zombies, peaking at #2 in 1969. The label was discontinued in 1972.

Epic distributed Ode Records between 1967 and 1969 and between 1976 and 1979.

In March 1968, CBS and Sony formed CBS/Sony Records, a Japanese business joint venture.^[15] With Sony being one of the developers behind the compact disc digital music media, a compact disc production plant was constructed in Japan under the joint venture, allowing CBS to begin supplying some of the first compact disc releases for the American market in 1983.^[16]

In 1970 CBS Records revived the Embassy Records imprint in UK and Europe, which had been defunct since CBS had taken control of Embassy's parent company, Oriole, in 1964. The purpose of the revived Embassy imprint was to release budget reissues of albums that had originally been released in the United States on Columbia Records (or its subsidiaries).^[17] Many albums, by artists as diverse as Andy Williams, Johnny Cash, Barbra Streisand, The Byrds, Tammy Wynette, Laura Nyro and Sly & the Family Stone were issued on Embassy,^[18] before the label was once again discontinued in 1980.^[19]

The CBS Records Group was led very successfully by Clive Davis until his shock dismissal in 1972, after it was discovered that Davis has used CBS funds to finance his personal life, including an expensive bar mitzvah party for his son. He was replaced first by former head Goddard Lieberson, then in 1975 by the colourful and controversial lawyer Walter Yetnikoff, who led the company until 1990.

In the 1980s to early 90's there was a CBS imprint label in the US known as CBS Associated Records. Tony Martell, veteran CBS and Epic Records A&R Vice President was head of this label and signed artists including Ozzy Osbourne, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Jett, and Henry Lee Summer. This label was a part of (Epic/Portrait/Associated) wing of sub labels at CBS which shared the same national and regional staff as the rest of Epic Records and was a part of the full CBS Records worldwide distribution system.

By 1987, CBS was the only "big three" American TV network to have a co-owned record company. ABC had sold its record division to MCA Records in 1979, and in 1986, NBC's parent company RCA was sold to General Electric, who then sold off all other RCA units, including the record division (which was bought by Ariola Records, later known as BMG).

On November 17, 1987, the Sony Corporation of America acquired CBS Records, which hosted such act as Michael Jackson, for US$2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name for music recordings but granted Sony a temporary license to use the CBS name. In 1990, CBS Records renamed the CBS Masterworks classical music label to Sony Classical Records. CBS Corporation founded a new CBS Records in 2006.

1991-2004: Birth of Sony Music Entertainment[link]

550 Madison Avenue, headquarters of Sony Music

Sony renamed the record company Sony Music Entertainment (SME) on January 1, 1991, fulfilling the terms set under the 1988 buyout, which granted only a transitional license to the CBS trademark.^[20] The CBS Associated label was renamed Epic Associated.^[21] Also on January 1, 1991, to replace the CBS label, Sony reintroduced the Columbia label worldwide, which it previously held in the United States and Canada only, after it acquired the international rights to the trademark from EMI in 1990.^[20] Japan is the only country where Sony does not have rights to the Columbia name as it is controlled by Nippon Columbia, an unrelated company. Thus, until this day, Sony Music Japan does not use the Columbia trademark for Columbia label recordings from outside Japan which are issued in Japan. The Columbia Records trademark was also controlled in Spain by another company, Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), which Sony Music subsequently obtained through the 2004 merger with, and later through the 2008 buyout of, BMG.

2004-2008: Sony BMG: Joint venture with Bertelsmann[link]

In August 2004, Sony entered into a 50-50 joint venture with Bertelsmann by merging Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) to form Sony BMG Music Entertainment. BMG can trace its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone. However Sony continued to operate its Japanese music business independently from Sony BMG (while BMG Japan was made part of the merger).

The merger made Columbia and Epic sister labels to RCA Records, which, as mentioned before, was once owned by RCA which also owned CBS rival NBC. It also started the process of bringing BMG's Arista Records back under common ownership with its former parent Columbia Pictures, a Sony division since 1989. It also brought Arista founder Clive Davis back into the fold. Davis is still with Sony Music as Chief Creative Officer.

2008-2011: Return to Sony Music Entertainment[link]

Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann announced on August 5, 2008 that Sony agreed to acquire Bertelsmann's 50% stake in Sony BMG. Sony completed its acquisition of Bertelsmann's 50% stake in the companies' joint venture on October 1, 2008.^[22] The company, once again named Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SME), became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation through its US subsidiary Sony Corporation of America. The last few albums to feature a Sony BMG logo were I Am... Sasha Fierce by Beyoncé, Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits by Christina Aguilera, and Safe Trip Home by Dido. A temporary logo was unveiled beginning December 1, 2008. The present logo was unveiled in March 2009.

On July 1, 2009, Sony Music Entertainment and IODA announced their global strategic partnership to leverage combined worldwide online retail distribution networks and complementary technologies to support independent labels and music rightsholders.^[23][24]

2011-present: Leadership changes & restructuring[link]

Doug Morris became CEO of Sony Music Entertainment in 2011

RCA/Jive Label Group CEO Barry Weiss left the company in March 2011 to become the new CEO of Island Def Jam & Universal Republic, which are both part of Universal Music Group. Weiss was the RCA/Jive Label Group CEO since 2008 and was head of Jive Records since 1991.

Doug Morris, who has head of Warner Music, then Universal Music, became Chairman and CEO of the company on July 1, 2011.^[25] Sony Music underwent a restructuring after Morris' arrival. He was joined by L.A. Reid who became the Chairman & CEO of Epic Records. Under Reid, multiple artists from the Jive half of the former RCA/Jive Label Group moved to Epic.^[26][27][28] Peter Edge became the new CEO of the RCA Records.^{[29][30][31][32]} The RCA Music Group closed down Arista, J Records and Jive Records in October 2011, with the artists from those labels being moved to RCA Records.^[33][34]

On the night of 8 August 2011, the Sony music distribution centre in Enfield, London was destroyed in an arson attack during the 2011 England riots.^[35]

On October 11, 2011, Doug Morris announced that Mel Lewinter had been named Executive Vice President of Label Strategy. Lewinter previously served as Chairman & CEO of Universal Motown Republic Group.^[36] In January 2012, Dennis Kooker was named President of Global Digital Business & US Sales. ^[37]

As of 2012 a Sony/ATV led consortium was in the process of trying to acquire EMI Music Publishing. In March 2012 the offered concessions in order to win EU approval for the acquisition. ^[38] The deal won EU approval in April 2012. ^[39]

List of Sony Music Entertainment labels[link]

Further information: List of Sony Music Entertainment labels

• Columbia Records
• Epic Records
• RCA Records
• Sony Music Nashville
• Provident Label Group
• Verity Gospel Music Group
• Sony Music Latin
• Sony Masterworks
• Legacy Recordings
• Columbia Records UK
• RCA Label Group (UK)
• Syco Music (joint deal)
• RED Distribution
• JG3 Records

Previously affiliated labels[link]

• Def Jam Recordings (1985–1993) (now part of Universal Music Group under The Island Def Jam Music Group)
• Loud Records (1999–2002) (now part of Universal Music Group under SRC Records)
• Chaos Recordings (1993–1995)
• The Work Group (1995–2000)
• Date Records
• Alaska Music Publishing

List of Sony Music Entertainment artists[link]

Further information: List of Sony Music artists

See also[link]

	Music portal
	Companies portal

• Sony BMG
• Sony/ATV Music Publishing
• Sony Music Entertainment Japan
• Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal
• List of record labels

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Yahoo! – Sony Music Entertainment Company Profile
• Sony Music Entertainment's channel on YouTube
• Sony Music Entertainment at the Internet Movie Database

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Anthony "Romeo" Santos (born July 21, 1981) is an American singer, featured composer and former lead singer of the Bachata group Aventura. As a member of Aventura, Santos has been a key figure in popularizing Bachata, with hits reaching near the top of the Billboard Latin charts and the top of charts in Europe. In 2002, the band's song "Obsesión" was number one in Italy for sixteen consecutive weeks.^[1]

Santos was born in The Bronx, New York, United States to a Argentinian father and a Puerto-Rican mother. At twelve years of age, he became a member of the church choir. While the group performs in both English and Spanish, their work was widely ignored by the English-language media during the early part of their career.^[1] On May 9, 2011, Santos released his first single, "You", from his upcoming solo debut album, Formula.^[2] The song became a number-one debut on the Hot Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart.^[3] The second single revealed from his album was "Promise" which features a duet with Usher.^[4] The single has peaked at number #1 on the Hot Latin Songs chart and number one on the Tropical Songs chart.^[5]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 2011: Formula, Vol. 1

Singles[link]

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} Rosen 2009
2. ^ "Billboard Bits: Charlie Sheen Releases 'Winning' Single, Bruno Mars Responds to Tyler Dis". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-05-10. http://www.billboard.com/news/billboard-bits-charlie-sheen-releases-winning-1005178372.story#/news/billboard-bits-charlie-sheen-releases-winning-1005178372.story. Retrieved 2011-05-16. 
3. ^ "Chart Highlights: Pop, Dance/Club Play Songs & More". 2011-05-16. http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-pop-dance-club-play-songs-1005185612.story. Retrieved 2011-05-16. 
4. ^ "Romeo Santos junto a Usher en "Promise"" (in Spanish). Terra Networks. 2011-08-30. http://musica.terra.com/generos/urbano/romeo-santos-junto-a-usher-en-promise,2f9cc31c80c12310VgnVCM20000099f154d0RCRD.html. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 
5. ^ "Chart Highlights: Rodney Atkins Takes 'Back Road' To No. 1 On Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2011-09-12. http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat#/column/chartbeat/chart-highlights-rodney-atkins-takes-back-1005359862.story. Retrieved 2011-09-12. 
6. ^ "Romeo Santos Billboard singles chart history". Allmusic. Prometheus Global Media. http://allmusic.com/artist/romeo-santos-p2071490/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved December 19, 2011. 
7. ^ "Latin Songs – Week of May 28, 2011". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. May 28, 2011. http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/latin-songs?chartDate=2011-05-28. Retrieved November 2, 2011. 
8. ^ "Latin Songs – Week of October 29, 2011". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. October 29, 2011. http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/latin-songs?chartDate=2011-10-29. Retrieved November 2, 2011. 

Further reading[link]

• Rosen, Jody. "Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero". New York Times. Arts:Music. June 3, 2009
• Symkus, Ed. "Listen to the Tale of Aventura". The Edge. The Boston Herald.com December 1, 2009

Mario Domm
Mario Domm performing
Background information
Birth name	Mario Alberto Domínguez Zarzar
Born	(1977-01-22) January 22, 1977 (age 35)
Origin	Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
Genres	Latin music, soul, pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, record producer
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Sony Music
Associated acts	Camila, Kalimba, Thalía, Paulina Rubio
Website	www.camila.tv

Mario Alberto Domínguez Zarzar (born January 22, 1977), known professionally as Mario Domm, is a Mexican pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Torreón, in the Mexican state of Coahuila, he enrolled in various performing arts schools, where he studied singing on stage.^[1] Domm rose to fame in the late 2000s as the lead singer of the band Camila.

Domm's début solo album Mexi-Funk-Music (2002), from which came the singles "Disco Amor", "Quiero" and "Si Te Vas", was not successful. After this debut, Domm devoted himself to writing and producing songs for other artists such as Kalimba, OV7, Alejandra Guzmán, Magneto and Reyli Barba. In 2006, Domm formed the band Camila with Samuel "Samo" Parra and Pablo Hurtado, releasing the album Todo Cambió, which became a number-one album in Mexico and the United States. Camila presented another number-one album in 2010, entitled Dejarte de Amar, which earned them three Latin Grammy Awards including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Domm had a number-one hit in the United States with the single "Causa y Efecto", performed by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio, and four top-ten hits with Camila ("Todo Cambió", "Mientes", "Aléjate de Mi" and "Bésame").^[2][3] Billboard listed Domm as the fourth most successful Latin songwriter of 2000.^[4]

Early life and career beginnings[link]

In 1993, Domm joined Mexican rock band Dulce Ana, getting radio airplay with a song called "Arboles Gigantes", which gave them the opportunity to play along with Café Tacuba and Santa Sabina.^[5] Domm also worked as a keyboardist for the Mexican group OV7.^[6]

The album Aerosoul by Kalimba was produced by Domm, Áureo Baqueiro, Edgar Oceransky and Sebastián Arocha. The first single, "No Me Quiero Enamorar", written by Kalimba, Domm and Oceransky, became a top-ten hit in the United States.^[7] The following single "Tocando Fondo", also written by Domm with Erik Guecha, spent 18 weeks in the Billboard charts.^[8][9] Later there was another successful album, En la Luna, produced by Domm for fellow Mexican singer-songwriter Reyli. Samuel Parra "Samo" performed the backing vocals for the album.^[10] En la Luna peaked at number 16 in the Billboard Top Latin Albums and sold a half-million units worldwide.^[11][12] Domm also produced "Desde Que Llegaste" for Barba. The song was included on the soundtrack for the Mexican film Ladies' Night, which sold 120,000 units in Mexico helped by the success of the song.^[1][11][13] The album also included "Si Te Vas" performed by Domm.^[13]

Domm co-wrote three songs for Mexican singer Alejandra Guzmán for her album Indeleble (2006).^[14] The first single, "Volverte a Amar", written by Domm and Guzmán, became the first number-one single for the singer in over 15 years in Mexico and also her highest peak in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart, reaching number six and number-one in the Latin Pop Airplay chart.^[14][15] The song received a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song.^[16] "Necesito Amarme", another song written by Domm for Guzmán, was included on the soundtrack for the Mexican film Asi del Precipicio.^[17] Also in 2006, Domm produced two songs for Mexican band Sin Bandera, "Será" and "Si Tu No Estás Aquí".^[1]

Forming Camila[link]

During the recording of En la Luna by Reyli Barba, Domm met Samuel "Samo" Parra. Impressed by Parra's vocals, Domm invited him to join forces to create a new project.^[10] They began rehearsing with a piano and decide to add a guitarist to the newly created band. Pablo Hurtado, the first one to audition, was selected.^[10] The band was named Camila, meaning "close to god", as the "appropriate thanks to the granting of the group's collective dream."^[18] The band released in 2006 their début album entitled Todo Cambió, which sold one million copies worldwide and reached number-one in Mexico and the United States.^[10][19][20] The album yielded six singles, "Abrázame", "Coleccionista de Canciones", "Todo Cambió", "Sólo Para Ti", "Me Da Igual" and "Yo Quiero".^[3] Domm received a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year in 2008 for the single "Todo Cambió".^[21] In 2010, Camila released their second album Dejarte de Amar.^[10] Dejarte de Amar debuted at the top of the charts in Mexico and the United States.^[20][22] In Mexico the album has spent eight weeks at number-one and 70 non-consecutive weeks within the top ten.^[22] At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2010, the band earned three awards, Record of the Year and Song of the Year for the song "Mientes" and Best Pop Vocal Album by a Group.^[23]

Collaborations[link]

In 2007, Domm worked on the album Entre Mariposas for Mexican singer Yuridia. Domm co-wrote "Ahora Entendí" and "Más de lo que Pido".^[24] "Ahora Entendí" reached the top 20 in the Billboard Latin charts and the album peaked at number-one in Mexico, spending 83 weeks in the Top 100.^[25][26] Domm wrote "Causa y Efecto" for Mexican singer Paulina Rubio, who released it as the first single from her album Gran City Pop in 2009.^[27] The track became a number-one hit in the Billboard Top Latin Songs and Latin Pop Airplay charts.^[2] As a part of a concert series by the record label Sony Music Latin entitled Primera Fila, Mexican singer Thalía recorded her first live album at the BankUnited Center of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.^[28] The first single, "Equivocada", was written by Domm and Maria Bernal, and peaked at number eight in the Latin charts in the United States.^[29] Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández recorded "Cielo de Acuarela", written by Domm, and included it on his album Dos Mundos: Evolución (2009).^[30]

Featured in Bachata artist's Romeo Santos' debut solo album Formula (Vol. 1) (2011) on the track Rival.

Personal life[link]

Domm has been linked romantically with Mexican TV presenter Mónica Noguera, singers Yuridia, Irán Castillo and Belinda.^{[31][32][33][34]} Allegedly, Domm wrote "Mientes" and "Bésame" (recorded by Camila) for Yuridia.^[35] In February 2010, Domm criticised the participation of Enrique Iglesias in the remake of the single "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" saying on his Twitter account that "he ruins the whole thing". Domm later apologized to Iglesias and his fans.^[36]

Discography[link]

As a solo artist[link]

• Mexi-Funky-Music (2002)

With Camila[link]

• Todo Cambió (2006)
• Dejarte de Amar (2010)

References[link]